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I am now getting my mum into respite for a month with a view to getting her into permanent residential care.

I was simply honest with my Dr, he got an emergency team out 4 times a day, still coming, until she is placed there.

I pray you get some concrete help along these lines.

I'm in my 50s, my new wife in her 40s. We are embarking on a great adventure. Life can be very tough at times, but at best it can be a great adventure, but you have to go out there... It very rarely just plops in your lap!

Thanks for all the replies. After nearly a month of quite stressful situations, my mum is getting placed in respite for a month and then we are pushing for permanent residential care. I am not coping, capable nor quite frankly want to look after someone where I literally don't know what might happen...

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Perhaps keep a log of incidents if and when they appear, try to be discreet as in don't walk directly into his path, which is annoying I know, and report it to the police if it ever steps over the line into violent threats, violence or throwing something at you or the house. Dementia or not, you sho...

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Before I started to get a little life experience and so henceforth a little much needed wisdom, I would have weighed in on here with an angry opinionated venal reply about how your mum is an arrogant so-and-so and to give her a piece of your mind. If only life were so easy! Unfortunately, life is co...

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